Hammer doesn't strut, but his every action, be it dismounting a bicycle, draining a glass of juice (apricot, of course), slinging a backpack over his shoulder, rolling sideways into a pool, or demolishing a boiled egg at breakfast until it's a welter of spilled yolk suggests a person almost aggressively at home in his own body, and thus in the larger world.
There was an orange tree in one corner of the courtyard and a bowl of apricots on a table.
I particularly remember a lunch of cottage cheese, spinach, and Parmesan quiche; mincemeat in chapatis; and a plethora of vegetable sides, cheeses, and chutneys, in the apricot orchard of a metalworker in remote Chilling.
And her recipe steps it up a bit by calling for a bottle of apricot brandy and a jar of marmalade.
For starters, the beer is outstanding, with an unusually complex aroma: a bouquet of apricot blossoms with a note of fresh-baked bread, like fruit jam on sourdough toast.
Even Rein and Naiman eventually quarrelled, with Naiman, in one of his many memoirs, accusing Rein of bringing a can of apricot compote to a dinner party and then eating all of it himself.
Not a bad summer job for an 18-year-old: fertilizing the female organs of hundreds of apricot flowers in a sunny orchard, listening to Grateful Dead tapes via speakers set on top of my lime-green Chevy Nova.
If the shoe fits, why not buy a pair of apricot mules on a pimento red platform from Jean Paul Gaultier, boudoir pink shoes by Vivienne Westwood or wildly psychedelic boots by Thierry Mugler?
So is peach apricot or a combination of any of the above.
He inlaid the sound hole with ivory swans, each pair a valentine of entangled necks, and fitted tuning pegs of apricot to give a good smell when rubbed.
